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TIL in 2011 the winners of a Utah school spelling bee received trophies that misspelled the word "spelling"

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0XwR TIL there is a railroad station in Kinokawa, Japan whose Station Master is a cat.
xVyo0 TIL Scallops have anywhere from 50-200 eyes.
8daa TIL that the Central Intelligence Agency has a memorial wall at headquarters for employees who are killed while working for the US spy agency. Each year the CIA adds stars for deaths; some with names, some without. There are 125 stars as of 2017, eight more than in 2016 and 46 more than in 2002.
KYJj9 TIL that Louisiana is an observer state of the Francophonie
R7mQ TIL the first science-fiction work was written in the 2nd Century AD by a Greek named Lucian. It has aliens, inter-planetary warfare, and cloud-centaurs.